Tuesday, May 21, 2019
"The piece, called Sun & Sea (Marina) (2019), was created by a trio of highly creative women: filmmaker and theater director RugilÄ— BarzdžiukaitÄ—; writer, poet, and playwright…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32AM[SHARE]Turns out it wasn't because of the ratings for Rent [kinda] Live! (the worst ever for a live TV musical) or even the naked hippies at the end of Act I (well, maybe a little). No, what killed…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM[SHARE]"Over the past year, the magazine has been locked in a bizarre intra-company battle between writers and photographers with a web of companies and individuals all seemingly blaming each other…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM[SHARE]"Prosecutors told a judge Thursday that they intend to retry Michael Rohana, 25, on charges of theft and concealment of an object of cultural heritage. Their decision comes a month after a j…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM[SHARE]"[The handover] will end a decade-long struggle to retrieve the missing Brod papers which, according to Israel's National Library, were stolen 10 years ago in Tel Aviv. The documents, letter…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]"Thirty years ago, MedellÃn was the most violent, the most dangerous city in the world. Nobody wanted to go there, not even Colombians," says Daniel Carvalho, the urban planner who launch…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]"Amid a year of turmoil, the Columbus Dance Theatre will enter its 2019-20 season without support from the Greater Columbus Arts Council. … Spokeswoman Jami Goldstein said of Columbus Danc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]First of all, there's the on-again, off-again attempt by Italy's new-ish nationalist government to make da Vinci and the Louvre show a cultural battleground. But there are also the perpetual…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:18AM[SHARE]The theatre, completed in 1916, was built by British and Parsi businessmen and presented Western and Indian music and spoken theatre until the 1930s, when it became a cinema. The arrival of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]"A charity which helps tackle homelessness and mental health issues has been hailed for changing people's lives. Streetwise Opera runs musical groups in [the North Yorkshire city of] Middles…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]Aras Amiri, a 33-year-old art student with Iranian nationality and British residence, worked for the British Council (roughly the equivalent of the Alliance Française or Goethe Institut).…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:12AM[SHARE]Here is a real meme, plucked from the Web over the weekend, filled out, and posted solely for your amusement. " Terry Teachout
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48AM[SHARE]I'd never had a knife in my life like the new nakiri. It was crackling sharp (though not for long), but something else made it exceptional: the calm ease with which the knife held my hand, a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:48AM[SHARE]Denny Zeitlin Solo Piano: Remembering Miles " Doug Ramsey
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 19, 2019
Bri Ng Schwartz: "An intent to make space for artists with diverse backgrounds can get lost in translation when the impact is harmful. … All of my recent experiences [as an Asian-American …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"Content warnings" " a more effective term than "trigger warnings" " "aren't about treating audiences like they are incapable of handling the material a play presents. Instead, warnings are …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"Right now, Thomas is starring in the Canadian Opera Company's latest production of Otello in Toronto. In the past, the role has received criticism for casting white actors who have had thei…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]"In mid-April, Performance Space New York hosted I wanna be with you everywhere (IWBWYE), a three-day festival "of, by, and for" disabled artists and writers. … The organizers adhere to th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Hilary Amnah: "While working in the public sector for much of my arts administration career, I have been complicit in adhering to largely inequitable practices " especially when it comes to …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Aileen Alon: "While most of my career has been in the arts, I've never been employed by an arts organization. … In fact, I've probably been able to do more for the arts and culture sector …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM[SHARE]Friday, May 17, 2019
Americans for the Arts CEO Robert Lynch says that his organization's Arts + Social Impact Explorer "consolidates and highlights concrete ways in which the arts intersect with and have an imp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:18PM[SHARE]"Ballet Moves began in 2014 when the father of a young girl with Down syndrome asked if any of the classes suited her needs. The answer was no. But Julie Sunderland, who trained with Boston …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]It's the same reason that Law and Order is good for New York theater, only more so " GoT has arguably pulled some new audiences to see, for example, some Christopher Marlowe and Sam Shepard.…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:12PM[SHARE]In recent years, the Israeli contemporary dance troupe has faced petitions and demonstrations by BDS activists almost everywhere it has performed abroad. Back home in Tel Aviv, the company's…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:06PM[SHARE]"[Garin Nugroho's] Memories of My Body follows four stages in the life of Juno, a young boy in a Central Java village who becomes infatuated by the lengger lanang, a traditional dance that o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]"Before the nineteen-sixties, the books Presidential candidates wrote weren't usually memoirs; they were collections of speeches." Now? "Sometimes Presidential candidates write books about t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]Performing at a comedy club in Naples, Fla., "[Egyptian-American comedian Ahmed] Ahmed asked if anyone of Middle Eastern descent was in the audience. After a few people clapped, Ahmed replie…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54AM[SHARE]The rising young maestra was about to make her Montreal Symphony debut on May 15 when she and the orchestra got word that pianist Daniil Trifonov, the soloist for the concerto that formed th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]"The theme is not a gentle salve for the American underslept; it is several swimming pools of Red Bull, delivered via helicopter drop, to a stadium full of management consultants. … Now Mo…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]The six-painting series known as the poesie, commissioned by Philip II of Spain and based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, were last displayed together in 1704. Five of them will be reunited and exh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:54AM[SHARE]The dismissal and subsequent reinstatement of dancer Amar Ramasar at New York City Ballet is the most high-profile of several recent cases where a performer was fired after a credible compla…
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